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This week, President Biden directed his intelligence agencies to take another look at whether the coronavirus resulted from a lab accident in China. For many, the announcement felt like a big change, putting what had been a conspiracy theory about the virus s origins back on the table.
But not much has changed for Robert Garry, a microbiologist at Tulane University who has analyzed the genome of the coronavirus. Nothing s really tipped me or made me flip-flop or anything about it, he says. I m more convinced than ever that this is a natural virus.
President Biden told U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.